Elaine Soule Found
Guilty; Sanity Trial
Scheduled Thursday
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ELAINE SOULE
Earlier Power Lack
Seen for Northwest
Portland W) President
Eisenhower's budget, which
would reduce funds for major
federal power projects, could
cause an earlier power short
age in the Pacific Northwest,
according to estimates by the
Army Corps of Engineers.
Col. A. F. Clark Jr., North
Pacific Division Engineer,
says completion of John Day
dam may be delayed four
years due to a cut in appro
priations. Completion, of Ice
Harbor dam on the lower
Snake river could be slowed
by two years, from 1961 to
1963.
Col. Clark, addressing a
dinner in honor of Dewey
Short, assistant secretary 'Of
the Army, said the delays
were based on the "present
funding situation, and also on
assumptions of possible fu
ture funds in light of current
circumstances which, of
course, may change."
He also explained that if
future appropriations were in
creased "substantially," some
of the lost time could be made
up.
Grange Notes
Pomona Grange
Jackson County Pomona
Grange will hold its next
meeting Saturday, Jan. 25, at
Roxy Ann Grange hall. This
will be an all-day meeting,
starting at 10 a.m. For the
noon meal the host Grange
will furnish the meat dish;
all ladies attending are asked
to bring salads and desserts.
Announcement will be
made of the winners in the
Jackson County Champion
Grange contest, and the prizes
'will be awarded during the
meeting.
Masters unable to attend
the meeting are urged to send
their reports in by someone
attending, or mail them to the
Pomona secretary to be read
at the meeting.
Mrs. Melvin Lattie,
Secretary
Jackson County Pomona
Grange
Klamath Falls UP) Dr.
Kenneth Tobias, 55, secretary
of the Conservative Baptist
Association of Oregon, died
here Monday.
Redwood City, Calif. (in
Suzanne Elaine Soule, con
victed of second degree mur
der for slaying her pretty
roommate, faces another trial
Thursday to determine if she
was sane at the time.
The same jury of five wom
en and seven men that
brought in a verdict of sec
ond degree murder Tuesday
will sit at her sanity hearing.
The trial is expected to take
about a day.
If found sane, Miss Soule
faces a five-year to life sen
tence for clubbing and stab
bing to death Catherine Ma
rie Elvins, 19, of Seattle,
Wash., in the Burlingame ap
artment the two girls shared
last July 24.
But if she is found insane,
she will undergo treatment
at a mental institution for at
least one year.
At any rate, the honey
haired typist from Freeport,
N.Y., will escape the death
penalty. The prosecution had
asked the "jury to return a
first degree murder verdict.
lhe defense had asked for a
verdict of manslaughter.
The jury took exactly two
hours to sift through two
weeks' testimony in the trial.
Ijfs sudden verdict caught the
court officials by surprise.
The verdict caused Miss
Soule to lose the impassivity
that has characterized her be
havior during the trial.
Gasped for Breath
When the clerk began read
ing the verdict, Miss Soule
gasped for breath and her
pale face flushed. When the
jurors were polled, her head
began to roll as though she
had lost control of her
muscles.
Two matrons rushed Miss
Soule from the courtroom
and into a sedan that carried
her two blocks to the jail.
As the car pulled up in
front of the building she has
lived in for the past six
months Miss Soule began sob
bing violent sobs that wren
ched her small frame.
Once back in her cell, she
lost all control and sobbed
convulsively for an hour. She
refused all offers of help.
Mrs. Frieda Soule. her mo
ther, could not bring herself
to be in court when the ver
dict was read, althoush she
had attended the whole trial.
It was an hour before Mrs.
Soule was composed enough
to leave the courthouse after
someone brought her word of
the jury's decision.
Sanity Issue
Meanwhile, defense attorn
eys G. Brooks Ice and John
Cost announced the Dlan to
call Dr. Walter A. Rapaport,
superintendent and medical
director of Agnews State hos
pital, at Miss Soule's sanity
iriai.
Rapaport had testified dur
ing the trial iust concluded
that Miss Soule showed all
the symtoms of schizophren
ia.
The murder of which Miss
Soule was found guilty took
place about 6:30 a.m. on July
24. Miss Soule arose, got a
flatiron and bludgeoned her
sleeping roommate with it 31
times. Then she took a kitch-
en knife and stabbed her 20
times.
According to testimony at
the trial, Miss Elvins died of
the wounds from the stab
bing.
The prosecution claimed
Miss Soule's motive was to
obtain a $160 check sent to
Miss Elvins by her parents.
Safeway Stores
Buy Area Fruit
Purchases of Medford area
fruit during the 1956-57 ship
p i n g season by Safeway
Stores, Incorporated, amount
ed to more than 8319,000, ac
cording to George M. Mangan,
Portland division manager.
A total of 3,037,403 pounds
of pears, peaches and plums,
the equivalent of 95 freight
cars, was shipped to Safeway
distribution centers in Port
land, Oakland, Los Angeles,
and New York. Of this, pears
accounted for 2,463,824
pounds, of which 1,945,020
pounds were sold through
Safeway stores in Oregon and
southwest Washington. Safe
wajs New York division ac
counted for another 497,952
pounds.
Safeway's produce buying
office in Portland also led in
purchases of Medford area
peaches, a total of 15 car
loads, or 448,212 pounds.
Mangan said "We are proud
of our continuing status as
Oregon's largest agriculture
customer and of our role of
helping to acquaint consum
ers throughout the nation
with the famous products pro
duced in our state."
Talisman Lodge to
Sponsor Boy Scouts
Talisman lodge, Knights of
Pythias, voted to sponsor Boy
Scout Troop 16 at their
meeting Monday. Dan Kadin
will be the troop's institu
tional representative.
The group also voted to
give additional support to the
Ground Observer Corps and
the local and state Civil De
fense groups. They offered
the facilities of the Pythian
lodge building in case of
emergency.
The group also voted to
contribute $5 to the March
of Dimes drive. Don Lacy,
Central Point, new chancel
lor commander, presided at
the meeting.
Infant's Body Found
On Hillsboro Dump
Hillsboro (IP) The body
of a newborn baby boy whose
throat had been slashed was
found in the Washington
county dump by a caretaker
Monday afternoon, Sheriff R.
H. Busch said today.
Busch said there wereMO
knife marks on the infant's
throat. Coroner Graham
Young said the baby had been
dead five to seven days.
The body had been stuffed
in a burlap sack and then
wrapped in a blanket, the
sheriff said. The dump is
about eight miles north of
Hillsboro on Shady Brook
road.
Gervais Postmaster
Killed by SP Train
Gervais. Ore. (IP) Mrs.
Gertrude Cecil Colby, 64, was
killed instantly shortly after
noon Tuesday when her car
was struck by a Southern Pa
cific freight train here.
She had been postmaster of
this small community near
Salem for many years.
Jack Earnest, Portland,
head brakeman on the train,
said the car was rolling and
Mrs. Colby was trying to get
out when the train hit it.
Engineer T. M. Kelson,
Portland, said the train was
moving about 55 miles per
hour. Force of the collision
threw the car against the
depot building.
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The Family Council
Editor's note: The Family Council consists of a judge, a psychiatrist,
three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers.
Each article is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does
not give advice; it merely reports on problems that have been dealt
with by responsible agencies and counselors.
Greta S. Henry can't keep
his eyes off young girls.
Henry S. It's natural for
a man.
Greta S. I am 45 years
old and have some gray hairs
and some lines in my face.
Just the same, I don't con
sider that I'm exactly an old
hag yet.
My husband, however,
seems to disagree. Whenever
he sees a streamlined young
thing on the street or on TV,
he gives forth with the wolf
whistle. He seems to be con
stantly looking over all the
young girls whenever we go
out together. If he is intro
duced to them he pays them
all kinds of compliments.
They are flattered and play
up to him.
Henry insists that it doesn't
mean a thing, but it sure
makes me feel discarded.
Henry S. I can never
make Greta understand that
there is a difference between
a man's point of view and a
woman's point of" view. A
man is naturally attracted to
pretty women, no matter
what the differene in ages.
As long as he is decent and
doesn't mean any harm by it
and his wife knows he is
faithful, what has she got to
kick about?
Looking at it from another
point of view, young women
are naturally attracted to a
mature man and are flattered
by his attentions, but that
doesn't mean they are ready
to snatch him away.
Greta should just wise up
to the facts of life. I still love
her.
The Council: What a life!
What facts!
Looking at it from still an
other point of view, Henry,
we have often heard of ma
ture women being attracted
to handsome young men, and
we have also heard of young
women being very much an
noyed by the attentions of
older men.- Sometimes they
pretend to be flattered in or
der to avoid being rude.
If we take Henury as an
example of the male sex,
we'd say that the real differ
ence between the points of
view of the two sexes is a
colossal and blinding egotism
on the male side. Henry is
like a little boy looking at
the exciting candy in the
store window, fancying it is
all for him.
Henry's fantasy may be
comparatively harmless, but
it is really unworthy of a ma
ture man. His argument that
his behavior is natural for a
man just won't hold water.
People don't always do what
is natural - and sometimes
they avoid doing the natural
and wiser things.
For example, we think it is
natural for a man of Henry's
age to put his thoughts on
such matters as how to ben
efit his community and fam
ily and how to improve his
business or job skills. This
would leave him less time
for window-gazing.
The only advice we can
give to Greta is to remind her
husband by an occasional
long, low whistle that women
also notice attractive humans
of the opposite sex if they
want to put their minds to it.
(Copyright 1958, General
Features Corp.)
Wednesday, January 22, 1958
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
NYU DEAN DIES
New York (IP) Dean
William Bush Baer of the New
York University College of
Arts and Science, died in his
sleep Tuesday in his Bronx
apartment. He was 55. A mem
ber of the NYU faculty since
1926, Dean Baer, also was the
sole performer, writer and
producer of the. WCBS-TV
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